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Private hospitals blame high fixed costs for exorbitant patient bills

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Mint."At the hospital there are far fewer patients because you have to empty a ward if a covid patient is there. Even the staff has to be kept in isolation, but we are paying them in full.

Doctors may be taking pay cuts because some of them are on variable pay, and they are not operating, but we are paying full salaries to all our nurses and lower level staff like housekeeping," Pai said.Currently, covid packages per day range anywhere between ₹25,000 per day and ₹70,000 in some top hospitals.

In Delhi, where treatment in private hospitals is among the highest, a committee appointed by the central government is currently looking at instances of high rates charged by some private hospitals.

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